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10 Loudoun County elementary schools to start later next school year 05/24/2024 03:30am • Ten Loudoun County elementary schools will start the school day 15 minutes later next year as the Virginia district works to address parents’ concerns about early starts and bus pickup times. During a county finance and operations committee meeting Tuesday, Director of Transportation Scott Davi At 75, NYC Ballet is getting older. Its audience is skewing younger, and that's the plan 05/24/2024 12:58am • NEW YORK (AP) — Alice McDermott settled into her seat at New York City Ballet on a recent Friday night, excited to see her first-ever ballet performance. The 31-year-old Manhattanite, who works in recruiting, was on a fun girls' night out with three friends she’d met through work, starting with Mexico's poorest receiving less government funds under president who brought poor to the fore 05/24/2024 12:28am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office nearly six years ago with a simple motto laying out his administration’s priorities: “For the good of all, first the poor.” His administration scrapped a host of existing social programs and installed their own, qui Biden selected as nominee in Idaho Democratic caucuses 05/24/2024 12:14am • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Democrats on Thursday selected Joe Biden as their their nominee for the White House, giving the president more delegates after he already clinched his party’s 2024 nomination. Biden won the state Democratic caucus with 95% of the vote in a low-turnout election with jus Native American tribes give unanimous approval to proposal securing Colorado River water 05/23/2024 11:30pm • The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed settlement that would ensure water rights for its tribe and two others in the drought-stricken Southwest — a deal that could become the most expensive enacted by Congress. The Navajo Nation has one of the largest single outstanding claims in t NCAA, leagues back $2.8 billion settlement, setting stage for current, former athletes to be paid 05/23/2024 11:04pm • The NCAA and the nation's five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars direct General Sherman passes health check but world's largest trees face growing climate threats 05/23/2024 11:03pm • SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias: bark beetles. The climbers descended the towering 2,200-year-old tree with good news on Tuesday. “The White House fetes Kenya with state dinner featuring sunset views, celebrity star power 05/23/2024 10:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Thursday's White House state dinner honoring Kenyan President William Ruto offered around 500 guests stunning D.C. views, a knockout menu, a dose of celebrity star power and even a little family drama. "I'm looking forward to having all the conversations,” Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Political consultant behind fake Biden robocalls faces $6 million fine and criminal charges 05/23/2024 10:51pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden's voice to voters ahead of New Hampshire's presidential primary faces a $6 million fine and more than two dozen criminal charges. The Federal Communications Commission sai Taiwan scrambles jets and puts missile, naval and land units on alert over China's military drills 05/23/2024 10:34pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island democracy where a new president took office this week. China’s military said its two-day exercises around Taiwan w Government sues Ticketmaster owner and asks court to break up company's monopoly on live events 05/23/2024 09:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America and asking a court to break up the system that squelches competition and drives up prices for fans. Filed in federal court in Manhatt The NCAA has agreed to settle a major lawsuit. It still faces a number of legal challenges 05/23/2024 09:11pm • The NCAA, which represents some 1,100 schools and more than 500,000 athletes, is no stranger to lawsuits. It has been in court off and on since the early 1980s defending the amateur athlete model at the heart of college athletics. But the organization has suffered a string of losses in court, highl Prince George's Co. officer accused of hitting elderly man with cruiser and not reporting it 05/23/2024 09:05pm • A Prince George’s County police officer has been indicted by a grand jury after he was accused of hitting an 80-year-old man with his cruiser in the parking lot of a Bowie, Maryland, fire station. Officer Dexter Shin is also accused of not reporting what happened and failing to get the victim p Ohio governor calls special session to pass legislation ensuring President Biden is on 2024 ballot 05/23/2024 08:48pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he is calling a rare special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring that President Joe Biden is on the state's 2024 ballot. The special session was called for Tuesday. “Ohio is running out Sube a 36 el número de personas hospitalizadas por accidente en mitin de Nuevo León 05/23/2024 08:47pm • (CNN Español) -- El número de personas hospitalizadas por el accidente en el mitin de campaña del partido Movimiento Ciudadano en San Pedro, en el norteño estado de Nuevo León ―que dejó nueve personas muertas―, subió la tarde de este jueves de 27 a 36, informó el gobierno del estado mex